Cephrenes augiades
Cephrenes augiades | |
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Cephrenes augiades sperthias | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Cephrenes |
Species: | C. augiades
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Binomial name | |
Cephrenes augiades (C Felder, 1860)
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Synonyms | |
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Cephrenes augiades, the orange palm dart, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found from Indonesia to the Solomons.
The wingspan is about 40 mm.
Food[]
The larvae of subspecies sperthias feed on Archontophoenix, Livistona and Phoenix species. During the day it hides within a shelter made by using silk to join fronds of its host plant, which fold together and bend across each other naturally.
Other recorded food plants include:
- Acoelorrhaphe wrightii
- Bentinckia nicobarica
- Butia eriospatha
- Carpentaria acuminata
- Carpoxylon macrospermum
- Chamaedorea microspadix
- Clinostigma samoense
- Gaussia attenuata
- Howea belmoreana
- Oenocarpus
- Pritchardia beccariana
- Pritchardia minor
- Ptychosperma bleeseri
- Ravenea rivularis
- Rhapis excelsa
- Rhopalostylis baueri
- Rhopalostylis sapida
- Sabal mauritiiformis
- Sabal mexicana
- Sabal uresana
- Satakentia liukiuensis
- Thrinax excelsa
- Trachycarpus martianus
- Veitchia merrillii
- Verschaffeltia splendida
Subspecies[]
- Cephrenes augiades augiades
- Cephrenes augiades sperthias (C. Felder, 1862) (south-eastern coast of New South Wales and the northern Gulf and north-eastern coast of Queensland)
- Cephrenes augiades tara Evans, 1935 (Batchian)
- Cephrenes augiades arua Evans, 1935 (Papua)
- Cephrenes augiades bruno Evans, 1935 (Papua)
- Cephrenes augiades burua Evans, 1935 (Buru)
- Cephrenes augiades meeki Evans, 1935 (Papua)
- Cephrenes augiades tenimbra Evans, 1935
- Cephrenes augiades websteri Evans, 1935 (New Britain)
External links[]
Categories:
- Taractrocerini
- Hesperiinae stubs